詞彙精選：famine的用法和辨析
一、詳細釋義：
n.
饑荒；飢餓 [U,C]
例句：
Thousands of lives were snuffed out during the famine.
饑荒奪去了成千上萬人的生命。
例句：
People found hoarding food during the famine were punished.
災荒時期屯積食物的人受到了懲罰。
極度缺乏，奇缺 [U,C]
例句：
People in the eastern cities thought they faced a serious coal famine.
東部各城市的人民認爲他們將面臨一次嚴重的煤荒。
例句：
There is a famine of executive talent in the shipping industry.
航運業中有行政才幹的人奇缺。
二、詞義辨析：
hunger,famine,starvation
這些名詞均有“飢餓”之意。hunger普通用詞，指人體對於食物迫切需要的正常生理現象。famine指因天災人禍而引起大規模饑荒；用作引申，指嚴重缺乏某種物資或人力。starvation語氣比hunger強得多。指因長期缺乏食物所造成的痛苦，甚至死亡，側重人爲的災難所致。
三、參考例句：
Famine caused widespread distress.
饑荒引起了普遍的憂慮。
Famine and war still afflict mankind.
饑荒與戰爭依舊給人類帶來痛苦。
Drought has caused famine in Africa.
非洲的乾旱引發了饑荒。
The famine is causing a humanitarian crisis.
饑荒正在引發一場人道主義危機。
Famine hit that benighted country once more.
饑荒再次席捲了那個矇昧的國家。
Famine and war still afflict mankind.
饑荒與戰爭依舊給人類帶來痛苦。
Organizing famine relief presents huge logistical problems.
籌劃饑荒救濟工作在後勤方面遇到了很大的問題。
Thousands of people died of famine.
成千上萬的人死於饑荒。
Famine and deprivation wracked the land.
饑荒和窮苦肆虐大地。
Please give generously to famine relief.
請爲饑荒賑款慷慨解囊。
